379: Child Online Safety Legislation as Bright Shiny Object

Alice Marwick (UNC-Chapel Hill) discusses her new paper, “Child Online Safety Legislation: A Primer.” If you’re wondering, the article Corbin quotes at the top of the show is Zephyr Teachout, Ending Big Tech’s Child Exploitation (Compact Magazine) (https://tinyurl.com/mjn4k7m8). Topics include: - Moral panic in the technical sense - The Kids Online Safety Act: not about kids, not about safety - Once more, with feeling: correlation is not causation - “Harmful content”: no one knows what it means, but it’s provocative - Care about kids? Center them, not technology Links: Child Online Safety Legislation: A Primer (https://tinyurl.com/3v42d3ee) Tech Policy Podcast #342: Save the Children (From State Social Media Laws) (https://tinyurl.com/mrx8vc7v)